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Allow users to login using their email address instead of a username.

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Django Email Auth

Allow users to login using their email address instead of a username.

A Few Cautions

Django allows emails to be blank and does not ensure that they are unique. The
authentication backend supplied with this application does it's best to deal
with this, but you should take your responsibility and handle emails with care.

Installation

  1. Add email_auth to INSTALLED_APPS in your project's settings module.

  2. Add the email_auth authentication backend to your project's settings::

    AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'email_auth.backends.ModelBackend',
    )

  3. Add a URL-pattern to your project's urls module (before any other
    configurations that include the login view)::

    (r'^accounts/', include('email_auth.urls')),

Configuration

There are no settings in particular associated with this application.

Worth noting here is that the login view (intended to replace the default
Django login-view) takes an argument form_class that allows you to specify
a custom login form.

TODO

  • It might be more elegant to just add a new argument (email) to the
    authenticate-method instead of using the old one for emails.

Contributors

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
Created September 2, 2009
Updated February 19, 2026